“Pics, damnit pics”
Well here is a short video clip from the service of the veneration of the Holy Cross on Great & Holy Friday (Good Friday in western parlance). I think it gives you the flavor for a Russian church service.
Thanks MRx, you always post such gorgeous videeos.
That old time religion.
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POSITIVELY MAJESTIC! And a worthy display of proper piety due our Lord God Almighty.
How far the West has fallen. I personally know of protestant churches for years now, with “cafes”, big screen TVs, gyms. Donuts before and after church. Concerts replace singing the PSALMS, drums and bongos, and plenty of rousing Southern Gospel. The people love it, arriving themselves in shorts and deck shoes in the summer time, comforts and entertainment appreciated.
Don’t get me started on the Western version of the Catholic
Church. Outside of the TLM, there is less and less difference with the Catholic Churches and any other Sunday hub bub. Catholic identity was lost after V2. Sounds like a band, doesn’t it?
But, the head covering conversation ignores the hundreds of years prior to V2, when women and communities revered modesty and modest dress. The hair of women was historically thought a point of beauty and pride and admiration. This timeless truth is so forgotten, even unrealized today.
Now, bare heads are the least of the abuses unfitting for worship. Cleavage is in, shorts, or dresses just as short, and 5 inch high heeled shoes might parade forward to receive our Lord in communion.
If it’s true that it really is “the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world”, then women need to redeem the piety of the centuries, behave themselves and dress themselves quite differently in their churches than they might in the bar on Saturday night. To heck with Hollywood leading the women’s fashion industry. Christian women and men are to be a peculiar people. That means being seen as being peculiar.